[–] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm still holding on to my iphone mini 13, cuz' I really like one-handed phones. This has NFC and an SD Card slot which is my biggest needs... and the support life seems awesome. My biggest worry - the processor.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I was under the impression with Google's new policy you'd still be able to turn off the unverified installations check (albeit with a 24 hour waiting period), in the dev options. Crazy that Google is trying to take away the one thing that keeps me using it over Apple.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    It's like with laptops. Apple is obsessed with thin laptops but really I don't want to thin laptop I want to laptop I can use to beat people to death with so that it's repairable and actually contains standard issue components rather than miniaturized custom things I won't be able to source when it inevitably breaks.

    If you're going to have a camera bump you might as well just flatten out the back and give yourself more battery space.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    I don't see why I'd need to spend more than $300 on a phone. These prices baffle me and I'd be better off buying a computer for this. I'm lucky with a great deal on my current 9 Pro XL but I'll wait it out for another great deal, these prices are dumb.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    To be fair, I have had similarly draconian apps run just fine on custom ROMs in the past, however at this point I couldn't say if that is still accurate and I have no experience with those specific apps. Maybe you could back your phone up and test it? Alternatively this may be a good time to have a separation between your work phone and personal phone? I have two phones with me and that helps separate everything personal from the professional quite neatly. It also means I can, if I want to, put my work phone away when I am not working.

    Also, if they are going to finance a phone they are going to own that phone. You won't. If they want to track where their phone is the likely can. If they want to install monitoring software on their phone they likely can. I would be very uncomfortable with my work phone being owned by them and with me at home. If I had a work provided phone I would have a charging station in a drawer and would pit the phone there when I get home and pick it up on the way to work.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    There's another post saying it'll cost $1900; I'm willing to pay more but that is way too much.

    Out of options, I'm genuinely considering the Fairphone 6+ now.

    I will still wait until the price is officially announced, but I'm not too optimistic.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    Phone market is quite empty unfortunately. Only good options I know is Fairphones but they have lots of drawbacks like price, online bl unlocking, etc. Nothing phones are also quite good, they are somewhat repairable and not intentionally enshittified.

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